Part III – Health and Childbirth For a woman in early Indiana, childbirth was a very real part of her life. More births were attended by female midwives than male doctors…
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Part II – Cooking There can be no argument that the bulk of the household chores on the frontier was the domain of the women and chief among these was the…
Part I – The Frontier Home Life on the frontier of Indiana at the dawn of statehood was not easy for anyone. But the hardships were perhaps especially acute for the…